So, until something worthwhile from the ‘Rim’ pops up, here’s the trailer for Pascal Laugier‘s (He also did “Martyrs,” which I haven’t seen) “The Tall Man.”

Unfortunately, it’s not Angus Scrimm, though like Scrimm, this ‘Tall Man’ also appears up to no good (though I suspect William B. Davis, if only because whenever he turns up in a movie, he’s up to no good).

Nowherelse.fr has a teaser for Iron Man 3 which looks very, very geniune. You don’t see anything other than the ‘Iron Man 3′ logo, but coupled with the accompanying sounds it implies a darkness that the prior films didn’t have.

Like this:

Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D, the guy on the right (not the Sam Jackson version of the character).

This is so cool. According to Hollywood Reporter Joss Whedon is developing a television based upon S.H.I.E.L.D (Supreme Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) for ABC. The best thing about this is that a S.H.I.E.L.D series can deal with more traditional threats as well as those of a super-powered nature.

It’s uncertain if Whedon will direct the pilot, but I am sure that he will be involved on some level beyond developing the property.

Like this:

I am always on the lookout for entertaining movies, though I prefer science fiction, horror, thrillers, and comedies, pretty much in that order.

Though I tend to watch virtually any film that isn’t too amateurish, and not drek like “The Human Centipede” (which may have some redeeming qualities, which I might actually notice if I were able to force myself to sit down and watch it).

With comedies, I tend to be a bit more selective because, let’s be honest, many comedies are comedies in name only. So, imagine my surprise to “discover” “Punching The Clown” on Netflix, the funniest movie I’ve seen in quite a while.

It’s the story of Henry Phillips, a comedian who’s a bit weary of the road, so he moves out to California to live with his brother to ply his craft.

It’s coming to theaters in October, and if it hits The District, I am so there.

Like this:

“”ParaNorman,” particularly its story, is not as innovative as its animation, though it often uses established tropes in an interesting fashion.”

Chris Butler and Sam Fell‘s “ParaNorman” is an interesting film primarily for two reasons: The first is that it’s made in stop-motion, a painstaking method of animation that involves figures built upon a metal armature, which are moved a small increment at a time, then filmed. When the frames are combined, the motion appears fluid.

While stop-motion animation in and of itself isn’t new, the way the film makers approach it is. They also made extensive use of 3D printing, which enabled them to create hundreds of very individual expressions for the characters, in a minimal amount of time.

It needs to be said that I have never been a huge fan of DC Comics. Despite enjoying the adventures of Green Lantern and Batman when I was younger, I always preferred Marvel overall.

That being said, I don’t want their films to fail because if enough superhero films fail, it threatens all superhero films because studios go where the money is, and if enough comic-based properties fail or underperform, they’ll stop making them.

It’s not necessarily that I thought that he wasn’t capable, more than he’s never done anything on that scale before, which could result in a problem of Bergian proportions.

Though that is not to say that such a strategy cannot work. Marvel seems to quite regularly use directors like Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau, who prior to Thor and Iron Man 1 & 2, had never done films on such a scale.

That’s better. Now that I found a little release, I can ask the question I find myself asking way more often that I would like lately, which is: Why in (insert perferred deity here) name are they remaking David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome?” Cronenberg himself attempted, not nearly as successfully, to revisit similar topics with “eXistenZ.”

Are they going to somehow make it more creepy? More subversive? Are they going to replace the television with the Internet, and call it innovative, despite “Pulse” beating them to the punch? Are they going to make it PG-13, because there’s no way that if it’s even half the film that the original is that it should be rated no less than a hard R.